💫WEB · John 7:36
What does John 7:36 mean?
"What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”"
— John 7:36 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”
The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?”
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
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